The RIAI Travelling Scholarship is an award made annually by the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland to one or more students of architecture attending a school of architecture in the Republic of Ireland or Northern Ireland.
The award has been made annually since 1935 and has former the basis for the careers of many notable Irish architects, among them Arthur Gibney, Sam Stephenson and Trevor Leaker.
Over the course of its history, the scholarship has been competed for in numerous ways. Current practice is for the RIAI to set a competition brief, which is then the subject of the design of a building or landscape by the competitors. An appointed jury of distinguished and learned architects and pedagogues then selects the winning entry.
In 2016 the award was renamed the RIAI Student Excellence Award. Dates Winner 1935 TG Nolan 1936 B Boyd-Barrett 1937 No Award 1938 No Award 1939 RS Scally 1940 No Award 1941 F Quinlan 1942 GM Crockett 1943 - 1946 Suspended 1947 RR Patterson 1948 Frederick Browne 1949 No Award 1950 Sylvester Bourke 1951 Francis J Barry 1952 No Award 1953 TA Austin 1954 Cathal O'Neill 1955 Arthur Gibney 1956 Sam Stephenson 1957 Joan McNeilly 1958 No Award 1959 Deirdre Shankey 1960 DV O'Connell 1961 No Award 1962 No Award 1963 Arthur P Martin 1964 Harry Conway 1965 Paul McNicholl 1966 Francis O'Meara 1967 Hugh Desmond 1968 Ian Hayes-McCoy 1969 David Crowley 1970 Desmond Crean 1971 David O'Connor & Diarmuid Twomey 1972 James D Barry & Deirdre O'Connor 1973 Peter D'Arcy, Marie Clear & Patricia McFarland 1974 Kieran Boughan & Paul Richardson 1975 Jerry O'Toole & Gerard Larkin 1976 Alfred E Jones 1977 No Award 1978 Sylvester Salley 1979 Michael Tallon 1980 Peter Bluett 1981 1982 Grace Weldon 1983Terence Thornhill 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 Donough McCrann 1992 Trevor Leaker 1993 1994 1995Róisín Hyde 1996 Emmett Scanlon 1997 1998 Patrick Gilsenan & Shane O'Neill 1999 Conor Cooney 2000 2001 2002 Paul Osborne 2003 James McGrory 2004 Jonathan Cassidy 2005 Jane Larmour 2006 Michael Bannon 2007 Deirdre McKenna 2008 Cormac Maguire 2009 2010 Breffni Greene 2011 John Walsh & Darren Snow 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Sean Mahon 2017 Rebecca Jane McConnell, Matthew Kernan, Mark Phelan & Rachel Loughrey 2018 Stephen Gotting 2019 Megan Quirey 2020 Eoghan Smith 2021 Harry Lloyd 2022 Noah Brabazon 2023 Daniesha Pile & David McEvoy 2024 Kevin Barry & Rachel Murphy
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